Horrible load factor
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 6 00:28:11 UTC 2012
On 12/05/2012 01:59 PM, JD wrote:
> Hi All,
> on Ubuntu 12.10, I clicked on Ubuntu Software Center
> in the apps menu bar on the left, and all of a sudden
> I could get almost no response from the system.
> I was finally able to run top in a terminal, and these
> are the worst cpu hogging processes:
>
> top - 14:54:48 up 2:14, 3 users, load average: 5.35, 3.17, 2.26
> Tasks: 238 total, 10 running, 228 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 73.4 us, 26.6 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
> 0.0 st
> KiB Mem: 2065284 total, 1757384 used, 307900 free, 58944 buffers
> KiB Swap: 12586916 total, 9172 used, 12577744 free, 413636 cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 1221 root 20 0 85684 35m 9244 R 39.4 1.8 21:25.33 Xorg
> 7559 jd 20 0 531m 151m 36m R 13.5 7.5 4:37.02 thunderbird
> 8805 jd 20 0 65084 37m 24m R 13.5 1.9 0:06.17
> update-software
> 3694 jd 20 0 688m 182m 34m R 13.1 9.1 22:17.12 firefox
> 8725 jd 20 0 270m 84m 36m R 9.9 4.2 0:16.87
> software-center
> 2056 jd 20 0 232m 76m 31m R 4.9 3.8 4:51.45 compiz
>
>
> This is very very bad for a unicore AMD64 3700+ cpu.
>
> Since I just installed 12.10, is this a clear sign of what to expect
> using ubuntu?
My guess is that you are experiencing this:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/363695?comments=all>
[update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU]
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